Writer Happiness Is….

(NOTE: Based on time elapsed since the posting of this entry, the BS-o-meter calculates this is 8.442% likely to be something that Ferrett now regrets.)

….getting a note from the podcast that’s about to perform your work, telling you that the narrator – who is new to the lineup – is absolutely thrilled to be starting his career here off with “a Ferrett Steinmetz story.”
The happy-dance lasts for about three-point-two seconds before you think, “Oh, I hope they liked it then,” but it’s a weird reminder that you’re in the stage of your career where you do have fans. Of your fiction. Still weird.